Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1843, Hugh Drennan, Penn.

SERVICE
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Drennan, Hugh Margaret
W. 1843
CONTENTS

355-
Kentucky - Louisville
Margaret Brennan widow of Hugh Brennan
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Pennsylvania Line
described on the Roll at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of October 1849 and sent to
Messrs. Boyd & Dulin Glasgow, Kentucky
Entered on Roll of Pensions paid on Page 3 of Vol. 7. at 29 July 1848.

26753 Kentucky
Hugh Osmeran of Fleming in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the 1st Regt Kentucky by Col Irvine in the Kentucky line for 1 year and 4 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 53 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of May 1834 and New Annuity Davis 16/12
Arrears to the 4th of March 160 00 Female allowance ending Sept 1834 26 67 $186 67
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk, Book B Vol. 1 Page 30

7509 Nich Brennan Decorations for Pension
Hon. A. Davis

Witness aforesaid do hereby Certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hugh Remond for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 13 th day of - March 1834.
L. D. Stockwood C. R. C. C.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
The Commonwealth of Kentucky } On this 5 th Fleming County Set } day of March in the year 1832 personally appeared before the General the Circuit Court for the State and County aforesaid Hugh Duran a resident of the aforesaid County and State aged 72 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following de- claration That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Month of January 1776 in Cumberland County Pennsylvania in the Town of Shipshurugh in the Company commanded by Capt. Abraham Smith of the Pennsylvania Line Sixth Regiment commanded by Col. James Irwin for twelve months he marched to Carlisle thence to Philadelphia thence to the City of New York thence by way of Albany to Lake George, thence to Ticonderoga, thence to Lake Champlain, thence to the St Lawrence river thence to the battle of the three rivers which he was in, when the American army commanded by Genl. Thompson or Genl. Sullivan was defeated. Thence the American army retreated up the St Lawrence river and marched to a place called Crown Point and built Fort Hartley and from thence to Mank.

Independence near Lancaster and wintered: from thence by way of Fort Ann and Fort Edward situate in a mountainous and wilderness country to Philadelphia and remained at least four weeks and from thence back to Carlisle in Pennsyl- vania and received an honorable discharge signed by Abraham Smith in the month of March or April 1777 made the term of duty in at least 13 months which discharge has been lost or mislaid so that he cannot now find it and in the month of 1778 1778 April he again volunteered in the County of Cumberland Land for six months the Company was commanded by Capt. William Findley of the Pennsylvania Militia the Regiment commanded by Col. Abraham Smith his former Captain and marched to a place called the Broken Billett near Philadelphia and fought the enemy and received three wounds one on the head from a horseman's sword one from a musket ball passing through the fleshy part of his thigh and on the hand from a sword and was taken prisoner on the first day of May 1778 by the British army and was carried to Philadelphia and kept six days and then made his escape and returned to his company which was stationed near Doylestown Pennsylvania at a place called Barren Hill and in which place he was kept until he could return home and was permitted to do so by his Capt. and owing to a very weak state of health he was unable to

(2) reach his residence in Cumberland County until July making the term at least three months he further states he was unable to labour or do the duty of a Soldier during the year 1778 and further that in the month of May 1779 he joined the Army as a waggoneer and drove and acted as such until he reached a place in North Carolina called the high hills of Santee and in the Summer of 1780 was appointed by Genl. Stubton for age and waggoneer master and continued as such at least 8 months when he resigned and returned to Philadelphia making in all at least 25 months that he served in the foregoing Capacities and was engaged as a waggoneer after serving for any term until the end of the war and was discharged at Boston in the winter of 1783 by Col. Countermore he hereby relinquishes any claim to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll in any State
Hugh Dugmore
Mr A. G. Stewart a clergyman residing in the County of Fleming and State of Kentucky and I do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hugh Dugmore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier

of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
A. G. Houston James Markwell
State of Kentucky Fleming Circuit Court
March Term 1834.
The foregoing declaration of Hugh Duman in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832, was sworn to in open court by the said Hugh Duman. And the certificate of A. G. Houston & James Markwell was also sworn to in open court, and the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War department, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. and the court further certifies that it appears to them that A. G. Houston who has signed the foregoing certificate, is a clergyman residing in the county of Fleming and that James Markwell who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Leakey Stockton, Clerk of the Court for the

No 466.
Margaret Brennan, widow of Hugh, Ky.
Aet 29 July 1848.
Married Jan 14, 1894 Hus d died 1842,
Adm o 16 mo s 1848, $53.33 per annum from March 1848.
Messrs Cox & Dublin Flemingsburgh, Ky.

The Record of marriages recorded in the County Court Clerks Office of Bourbon County and State of Kentucky as solemnized by the Rev. Augustus Easton contains this entry " January four weeks One thousand seven hundred and ninety four. Hugh Brinnun & Mag t Hughes.
I Thomas P. Smiths Clerk of the said County Court do hereby certify and depose and say that I hold the Office of Clerk of the County Court of Bourbon County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Office with the exception that the date in the record is liberally expressed thus January 1794. 14.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand This 6 th day of June 1849.
Thos. P. Smith.
Sworn before me Chas. Taltbot J.P.
State of Kentucky & County of Bourbon ss.
I Thomas P. Smiths Clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that the above named Charles Taltbot Esq. is an acting Justice of my said Court and County & that the foregoing signature is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this sixteenth day of June 1849.
Thos. P. Smiths Clerk

1 State of Kentucky Fleming County } ss
On this 26 th day of March Eighteen hundred and fifty nine personally appeared before the County Court, for the County of Fleming and State of Kentucky, Margaret Brennan, a resident of the County in said County of Fleming, aged about or in her seventy eighth years, who, being first sworn, duly according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 29 th day of July 1848 entitled "An act for the relief of Certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army"; that she is the widow of Hugh Brennan who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution from the State of Pennsylvania, that before his death from about the year 1832-3 or 4, he drew a pension to the amount of about $530.00 Dollars per Annum. Until the time of his death. This pension was drawn under the act passed on the 7 th day of June 1832 (as she now recollects and believes) and that the evidence and proof that the said Hugh Brennan was a pensioner of the United States on the roll of Revolutionary Pensioners for services in the "Army of the Revolution" is as she supposes and believes in the Archives of Government where such papers are kept. To which she here refers for the proof. She further declares that she was married to the said Hugh Brennan on the 14 th day

of January in the year Seventeen hundred & Ninety four, that her husband the aforesaid Hugh Brennan died on the 26 th day of December 1842, that she was married to him since he left the services and previous to the first day of January Eighteen hundred, and at the time aforesaid Attest Geo S Fleming, Margaret Brennan Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first aforesaid before the Fleming County Court in open court and which is a court of probate jurisdiction & before me presiding justice of said court D. K. Stockton Presiding justice aforesaid
State of Kentucky Fleming County } ss On this 26 th day of March 1849 in open court came Joseph Leecroft, James Eckles & John Cochran personally known to the undersigned and who are entitled to credit and on oath say the aforesaid Margaret Brennan who subscribed and swore to the above "Declaration" is known to them to be the widow of Hugh Brennan deceased late of a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States who resided at the time of his death in the County of Fleming and State of Kentucky and that

She has not since her said husband's death married again but still remains the widow of said Hugh Armstrong deceased Joseph
John Lockman Jas. Bickell
Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned by the aforesaid deponents this 26 th day of March 1849 in open court in the County Court of Fleming County Ky. a court of probate jurisdiction
D. H. Stockton Presiding Justice of said John Lockman
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Fleming county Set
I William T. Dudley Clerk of the Court for the County aforesaid do certify that D. H. Stockton whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is now and was at time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace for the county of Fleming Commonwealth of Kentucky, and presiding Justice as aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn acc- -ording to Law & the signature purporting to be his is genuine, and his official acts are entitled to full faith & credit
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my said office at Fleming Ky this 19 th day of June 1849. W. T. Dudley clerk

7509 Hugh Brennan Kentucky
j Jan 1776 per copy 44-0 $53.33 33 / 100
Hon A. Davis. N. R.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Hugh Donnan:
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.     1776 1 1 Pt. Capt Smith Col Irwin 72 Pa Traditionary,   1778 3 Pt. Capt Middley Col Smith.  
Service as wagon not allowed, unless he enlisted to serve in the continental line of Pa. If so started from same.
No proof of first service received at the pension office. The testimony of one witness should be produced if possible.
The expedition to Canada took place in 1775.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of }  On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____ hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, _____ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? { To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____; For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
☞ The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

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WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 1843
Margaret Drennan Widow
Hugh Drennan Pr. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: Vol. C , Page 195
[Arrangement of 1870.]

22 Hon. Mr. Amos Davis
Washington City

Harringsburg 16 March 1834
Hon. Amos Davis
Sir Enclosed you will find the declaration of Hugh Brennan asking for a pension; I enclose to the Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War, under date of 27. Sept. 1833 the declaration of said Hugh Brennan accom- panied by the statement of Thos. Brennan of Pennsylvania, and as I have received no answer from the War department, no- doubt, the papers have been lost, I have now written to Thomas Brennan to forward his statement, upon the subject to the Hon. William Jennings Warner Dennis of Pitt- sburg now a member of Congress, and has with a request that Mr. Dennis will hand the same over to you and I hope you will give the necessary attention, it is probably that Mr. Dennis may have a personal acquaintance with Thos. Brennan as as he resides in the County of Alleghany as I am told by his Brother Hugh Brennan and within some 18 or 20 miles of Pittsburgh. Your attention will confer a favour on the old man give me the money as you have sent me have been distributed in due time
Your friend William B. Scott

A. Davis H.R.
Since
Hon ble Horace Downey Esq r
Make Add d proof
Hon. A. Davis H.R.
Member of U.S. Senate
Washington D.C.

State of Pennsylvania } Allegheny county } ss.
Be it Remembered That on the twenty eighth day of April 1834 Personally appeared before me Justice of the peace in and for said county Thomas Sprennan of Elizabeth Township in the said county - and made oath in due form of Law. That he is well acquainted with Hugh Sprennan of Fleming County in the State of Kentucky who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war - was enlisted in Capt. Abraham Smiths company of Musketry in the sixth Regt. Commanded by Col l Irwin under Genl. Thompson in the Pennsylvania line for one year - was in the battle of the Three Rivers - was a winter in Canada, and was captured in the Affray at the Crooked Billet - was carried to Philadelphia where he continued a prisoner for a short time - was exchanged and returned to Carlisle, Cumberland County Penn a where he continued to reside untill about the year 1783 when he came to Western Pennsylvania & remained there a resident of Westmoreland County Nortraven Township for six or seven years when he emigrated to the State of Kentucky where he took an active & distinguished part against the Savages the then common enemy of the Western Frontier - And this deponent further states that the said Hugh Sprennan is his Brother & was severely wounded by the cavalry - who took him prisoner at the Crooked Billet - He. resisting to the utmost of his power & did not surrender untill overwhelmed by numbers - That he was living & in good health about a month ago And this deponent firmly believes that the said Hugh is in- titled to the benefits of the Laws of the United States in such Case provided,
Thomas Sprennan
Sworn & Subscribed the } 28 th day of April A.D. 1834 }
Before me
J. "Bradyhead"

Allegheny County ss.
I, Craighead a justice of the peace in & for said county. Do hereby certify that on the 28 th day of April - A.D. 1834 Thomas Sproun of Elizabeth Township in said County, appeared before me, & took & subscribed the foregoing Oath in behalf of his Brother Hugh Sproun of Fleming County in the State of Kentucky respecting his claims as a Revolutionary Pension. - And from my own knowledge & the general character of the man I have no doubt that the claim is just. And that Thomas Sproun having resided for upwards of 40 years in the County of Allegheny Aforesaid & being personally acquainted with him, I know him to be a man of good character for truth & veracity & has always been regarded so, by his neighbors. Given under my hand, at Elizabeth Township aforesaid the same date as above. Witness my hand and seal at Eliz a Town the day & year aforesaid. Since
J. Craighead
Allegheny county & State of Penn a ss.
I Harvey H. Peterson Prothonotary of courts of common pleas & in & for said county do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Craighead of Elizabeth Township in the said county before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who signed the above certificate and know the signature to be in the proper handwriting of the said justice who is duly commissioned and appointed justice and to whose Official acts full faith & credit is due as well in the state as thereout. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of said court to thereto affixed this 30 th day of April A.D. 1834 H. H. Peterson Pro.

Allegheny county. State of Penn a f to
I Charles Shaler judge of court of common pleas in the fifth judicial district composed of the said county of Allegheny do hereby certify that Harvey H Peterson who signed the foregoing certificate is the prothonotary of the several courts in the said county duly appointed & commissioned and to whose Official acts full faith & credit is due & ought to be given & that the said certificate is in due form of Law Given under my hand the 30 th day of April A D 1834
Charles Shaler
when in Lavaque 2